 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 páginas
...Johnson leaves on record this memorable testimony, that "SHAKSPEARE is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature, the...his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life !" But let us now turn our attention to WAR in all its tremendous ramifications ; it is a fertile subject... | |
 | George Smeeton - 1834 - 300 páginas
...Shakspeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the ppet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of...and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies... | |
 | Samuel Astley Dunham - 1837 - 418 páginas
...and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. " Shakspeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the...and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world : by the peculiarities of studies... | |
 | John Drakakis, Terence Hawkes - 1985 - 324 páginas
...faithful and exact depiction. Its exercise, he says, ensures that Shakespeare stands above all writers as 'the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life' (Johnson 1969: 59). To this day, that remains, in general terms, the grounding claim popularly made... | |
 | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd - 1990 - 622 páginas
...and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful 10 mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 páginas
...truth. Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature <Gt/136>; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror...and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpracticed by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 páginas
...above all modem writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies... | |
 | Plato - 1996 - 268 páginas
...eighteenth century. The highest praise that Johnson could lavish on Shakespeare was that he was above all writers 'the poet of nature; the poet that holds up...readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life' (Preface to Shakespeare, 1759). The legacy of P.'s characterisation of the artist's activity in terms... | |
 | Anne Glyn-Jones - 1996 - 662 páginas
...Shakespeare that he drew his scenes from nature and from life . . . Shakespeare is above all writers ... the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life'.3 The actor Thomas Dogget won particular renown for seeking to 'characterize each of his figures... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 páginas
...and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. (pp. 61-61) Johnson used the phrase "general nature" for the first... | |
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Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature, the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. 
